User:Eirikr/JA hypotheses

Unsorted list of things to research as time allows

 * JA ←, also root  as in  etc.
 * KO, from 🇨🇬, from 🇨🇬
 * → Unlikely. Oldest sense for (circa 810) is 「茫然となる. ぼんやりする. 放心する. 」  Per KDJ,

[語誌]中古から中世にかけては老齢や種々の肉体的精神的衝動のために放心状態となる意であった. ③のような「相手に夢中になる」「うっとりする」意に限定されるのは室町後期以降と思われる. また、その限定化は、古くからあった「痴呆」「耄碌」の意が濁音形の「ぼれる」「ぼける」に受け継がれたため、語形と意味の分担が生じた結果として考えることができる.
 * I suppose there might be something to, but given the apparent unrelatedness to , and the even-further mismatch between root forms and , this doesn't look like a fruitful path to follow.


 * JA
 * KO, from 🇨🇬
 * Iff we can find a pattern of KO (OKM, OKO) matching up with OJP, there might be something.  Odd phonetics, but there is the P/K alternation in Celtic, for instance.


 * JA
 * HU, perhaps from.
 * Far-off, but interesting.
 * Far-off, but interesting.
 * Far-off, but interesting.


 * JA, , , , possibly also ,
 * KO ← OKM
 * PIE
 * Again, far-fetched, but interesting thread to pick at.